New York, I Love You

New York, I Love You
Theatrical release poster
Directed by
Written bySee below
Produced byEmmanuel Benbihy
Marina Grasic
StarringSee below
Cinematography
Edited by
Music by
Production
companies
Distributed byVivendi Entertainment
Release dates
  • September 2008 (2008-09) (TIFF)
  • October 16, 2009 (2009-10-16) (United States)[1]
Running time
103 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$9.7 million[2]

New York, I Love You is a 2008 American romantic comedy-drama anthology film consisting of eleven short films, each by a different director. The shorts all relate in some way to the subject of love and are set among the five boroughs of New York City. The film is a sequel of sorts to the 2006 film Paris, je t'aime, which had the same structure and is the second installment in the Cities of Love franchise, created and produced by Emmanuel Benbihy. Unlike Paris, je t'aime, the shorts of New York, I Love You all have a unifying thread, of a videographer who films the other characters.

The film stars an ensemble cast, among them Bradley Cooper, Shia LaBeouf, Natalie Portman, Anton Yelchin, Hayden Christensen, Orlando Bloom, Irrfan Khan, Rachel Bilson, Chris Cooper, Andy García, Christina Ricci, John Hurt, Cloris Leachman, Robin Wright, Julie Christie, Maggie Q, Ethan Hawke, James Caan, Shu Qi, and Eli Wallach.

New York, I Love You premiered at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival in September 2008, and was released in the United States on October 16, 2009. While the TIFF premiere of the film featured 14 novellas, distributors later decided to cut two of them: Scarlett Johansson's directorial debut "These Vagabond Shoes" and Andrei Zvyagintsev's novella "Apocrypha". The decision was taken after a focused screening in New York, where these two shorts were met with unfavorable reactions.[3]

  1. ^ "New York, I Love You in October". Slashfilm. Archived from the original on 2010-08-17. Retrieved 2009-05-15.
  2. ^ "New York, I Love You (2009) - Financial Information". The Numbers.
  3. ^ "Apocrypha". Andrey Zvyagintsev. Retrieved 2020-04-04.